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Brooktrout, Esnatech and Iwatsu Provide Speech-Enabled Unified Messaging Solution to Small and Medium Businesses NEW YORK, SpeechTEK 2005, Booth #307, August 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Brooktrout Technology, Esnatech, and Iwatsu today announced a speech-enabled unified messaging solution for small to medium businesses. The solution, which utilizes Iwatsu's Enterprise-CS IP-PBX, Esna's Telephony Office-LinX and Brooktrout's speech platform, combines "find me -- follow me" functionality with speech-enabled unified messaging to allow mobile workers to conveniently access their voice, email and fax messages from multiple devices including desk phones, cell phones, PDAs, and web browsers. This system is currently being used by companies such as Atlantic Southeast Airlines ASA and ACS Benefits Blue Cross Blue Shield Provider of South Carolina to help improve the efficiency and productivity of their distributed workforce and respond to customer queries in minutes versus hours. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19990806/BRKTTECH ) Esnatech's new Telephony Office-LinX Small Business Edition (SBE) is a complete Unified Communication solution for businesses with between 5 and 50 employees. Messages can be accessed conveniently from virtually any communication device, including office telephones, cell phones, PDAs, PCs, or any web browser -- regardless of the incoming message type (i.e. voice, fax, e-mail). For example, by using Office-LinX's built-in text-to-speech services, users can listen to e-mails, voice mails and direct fax messaging and respond to all communications in either text or speech format. "We selected Brooktrout's speech platform for Telephony Office-LinX because it allows us to deliver our product across a broad spectrum of both IP and non-IP platforms without us having to make any significant changes to our product," said Davide Petramala, vice president of Marketing for Esnatech. "By providing a product line with a unified API that scales across analog to multi-span T1 connections, Brooktrout allows us to focus our efforts on developing our application features, and their tools and utilities speed up our development time and allow us to get new products to market faster." Iwatsu's Enterprise-CS combines the best of both worlds -- TDM and IP technology. While traditional TDM systems transmit only voice, this converged system is a media bridge gateway that converges and transmits both voice and data traffic. This convergence means businesses get higher cost-savings, more flexible bandwidth usage and fewer hardware requirements. Plus, intuitive system features and "add-on" applications can make it easier to grow with your business long into the future and simplify daily work routine. Brooktrout's speech platform will connect ESNAtech's Office-LinX to the Iwatsu PBX and process all voice and touch-tone responses for use by the application. The Brooktrout platform provides superior call control, especially when calls are redirected between the central office, mobile users and voice mail systems. Speech quality is enhanced through the hardware processing provided by the Brooktrout platform. The complete solution is available nationwide via Iwatsu's dealer network. For more information on the Iwatsu Enterprise-CS visit http://www.iwatsu.com/. For more information on the Esnatech Telephony Office-LinX Small Business Edition (SBE), visit http://www.esna.com/. For more information on Brooktrout's voice and speech platforms, visit http://www.brooktrout.com/applications/enterprisevoice/ About Esnatech Founded in 1989, Esnatech's mission is to provide communication solutions for businesses and people to communicate anywhere, anytime, on any device. Esnatech solutions empowers organizations by giving them the flexibility to conduct business at anytime, from anywhere so they can manage the information they need, when they need it. Esnatech markets and distributes their products through OEM and VAR partners in over 28 countries worldwide. For more information please visit http://www.esnatech.com/. About Iwatsu Iwatsu Voice Networks is a leading manufacturer and provider of business telephone solutions designed using QuadFusion(TM) Technology which combines H.323, SIP, TDM and VoIP. Iwatsu Voice Networks is the flagship subsidiary of Iwatsu Electric, the publicly owned industry leader in Japan and pioneer of many firsts in the telecommunications industry. Iwatsu serves millions of users in over 50 countries. For more information please visit http://www.iwatsu.com/. About Brooktrout Technology Brooktrout Technology is a leading supplier of media processing, network interface, call control and signal processing products that enable the development of applications, systems and services for both the New Network (packet-based) and the traditional telephone (TDM) network. The company's strategy is to partner with its customers and collaborate closely with them to help accelerate their delivery of new applications and services, increase their existing business, and expand into new markets. For more information, visit http://www.brooktrout.com/. Brooktrout Technology is a subsidiary of Brooktrout, Inc. (NASDAQ:BRKT). Brooktrout, Brooktrout Technology, and New Network are trademarks of Brooktrout, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Contact: Laura Often Lida Joly +1 781 453-4858 +32 2 658 5190 http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19990806/BRKTTECH http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Brooktrout Technology CONTACT: Laura Often, +1-781-453-4858, , or Lida Joly, +32 2 658 5190, Web site: http://www.brooktrout.com/ http://www.esnatech.com/ http://www.iwatsu.com/

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